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Good morning kids, the third attempted assassination of President Trump and in this instance as many of his cabinet members and advisers that were close enough to him at the WHCD will no doubt be the top story at least through the end of the week. Or until the Fifth Columnist Fourth Estate exhausts itself in its attempt to evade its responsibility in painting President Trump as an "Imperial" president and literally Hitler. With that is casting over half the country as racist Nazi white supremacists. Again, if this President were even a fraction as tyrannical and despotic as the Democrat/Leftists have historically been for over 200 years, that party and everyone in its base would've been smoke up a crematorium chimney or worm food in a mass grave long, long ago.
Compare and contrast. Charlie Kirk, a vocal, passionate and effective opponent of Leftism, who sought to defeat them, via civilized debate because he respected their right to express their opinions in a free and open society and let people decide for themselves.
The Democrat Left on the other hand could not allow that and so Charlie Kirk is in an early grave. Meanwhile vermin like Puce Stinkspleen and Jimmy Kimmel can spout the most vile abuse and blood libels at the President and First Lady with impunity knowing full well that the odds of them being in any kind of mortal peril is essentially zero. More likely they'd be praised for "speaking truth to power" (vomit) from all quarters of the Left. And again, not only do they have nothing to really fear from normal Americans of every stripe, from those who are MAGA all the way to just regular folk, there are those who have condemned the calls for Kimmel to be taken off the air and censored. I am fiercely pro free speech but at some point there is a line that we dare not cross that ventures into actual incitement.
In fairness, I'll be the first to admit that some of my rhetoric might, MIGHT, be interpreted by some as getting close to that line. The difference is, I have history and facts to back up my rhetoric in calling out the Democrat/Left for who and what they are.
Taking a shot at the king, whether with a gun or even rhetorically usually resulted in one's head on a pike.
Beyond that, despite Kimmel et al who have railed against Trump for years now still have platforms and worse, followers who will never abandon them and echo their poisonous bilge. As repulsive as they all are, I say let them speak and hopefully foist themselves on their own petards when they lose their audiences and influence.
But of course, they will never countenance open debate because they look upon us and our leaders as an evil to be eradicated. Always have, always will.
With now the third serious assassination attempt against President Trump on the books, it is an important juncture to examine the intellectual gleischaltung that encourages American society and global society to view Republican Presidents as the height of all evil. More than Kim Jong Un of North Korea, more than Vladimir Putin of Russia, more than Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran, more than Chairman Xi of China, Republican Presidents are rhetorically imbued with intrinsic evil that requires all available means of persuasion -- including assassination. Since the assassination of Lincoln, the press and academic culture have worked together to create a sense of moral purpose in killing Republican presidents. On July 11, 2007, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Betty Williams gave the keynote speech to the International Women’s Peace Conference in Dallas, Texas, and said (to laughter and applause from the audience):“I mean right now, I could kill George Bush, no problem. No, I don’t mean that. I mean -- how could you nonviolently kill somebody? I would love to be able to do that.” As a Republican President, George W. Bush was subjected to a media and academic character assassination regimen that drove his approval into the 20s before he left office in 2009. A Methodist minister, Charles Moore hated President Bush so much that he immolated himself at Grand Saline, Texas in 2014. He expressed written regret that he lacked the courage to burn himself alive on the campus of SMU where George W. Bush’s Presidential library is located.
Republican Presidents who were assassinated or subjected to attempted assassination include: Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. Ironically, the most well-known presidential assassination was certainly that of John F. Kennedy, a Democrat president killed by a sniper assassin. The rhetoric surrounding this 1963 event provides insight into the enduring anti-Republican ethic of the American public sphere. Lee Harvey Oswald almost certainly killed President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. One of the most treasured canards of American history is a vast array of conspiracy theories that seek to exonerate Oswald...
...Our intellectual and academic culture is dangerously creating violent pro-assassination rhetoric that is creating this cultish desire to kill President Trump. It is not only dangerous to the United States but also the Democrat Party that offers itself as the primary point of peaceful opposition to President Trump. Revered Democrat strategist James Carville recently commended his own ‘trump derangement syndrome,’: "I hate the motherf-----. And you know what? I don't want to get rid of it [TDS]. I don't want to get better. I want to get worse. I want to hate him more."
James Carville is not the equivalent of an unknown goat-herding/boffing head-chopper holed up in a cave in Tora Bora. He is a major Democrat/Leftist political leader - a Grand Imam genuflecting before the Mecca space rock. And the true believers, and they constitute hundreds of thousands if not millions of our fellow citizens (in name only!) eat this up day in and day out.
... And in 2020, Kamala Harris said of the left’s riots, “They’re not going to stop. This is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not going to stop and everyone beware, because they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop before Election Day in November and they’re not going to stop after Election Day. Everyone should take note of that on both levels. They’re not going to let up and they should not and we should not.”
They haven’t. If anything, they’ve stepped on the gas. Why? Because as the great David Horowitz memorably quipped, “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”
As Trump continues the painstaking work of dismantling the left’s clandestine power structure, the totalitarians will continue to get out and make themselves known. The Democrat Party is today the party of authoritarianism and violence. This is not an aberration or a momentary case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. This is what the party is at its heart.
And so, what is to be done?
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, joined by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel, confirmed at the press conference that Allen faces a count of attempted assassination of the President of the United States, punishable by up to life imprisonment, interstate transportation of a firearm to commit a felony, punishable by up to ten years in prison, and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence, punishable by up to life and a mandatory minimum of ten years in prison. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro confirmed additional charges will follow. DOJ Outlines Assassination Attempt Against President Trump After Suspect Formally Charged.
The affidavit, filed as part of the criminal complaint against Cole Allen — charged with the transportation of a firearm and ammunition in interstate commerce with intent to commit a felony, discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence, and attempt to assassinate the U.S. president — details the moments leading up to the attack and the actions of the Secret Service officer only identified as “V.G.” Secret Service Agent Shot At WHCD Was Only One To Return Fire: Affidavit
Worse, Pritzker should know that the guy hired to start the violence, Bob Creamer, of the Illinois-based Democracy Partners, once claimed that, "We have a whole team across the country... consultants and the Democratic Party apparatus" organizing disruptions, also worked against him in a previous campaign. Pritzker should know because Creamer worked against him in the 1998 congressional race on behalf of his wife, the now, soon-to-be retiring Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky. Shorter Pritzker: Trump Deserved It, and I'll Justify It by Completely and Hilariously Wrecking Myself
the escalation risks dragging Lebanon deeper into the broader clash between Israel, the U.S., Iran, and its proxies. Notably, the ceasefire in Lebanon formed part of Iran’s demands for a ceasefire, and its collapse could reignite the conflict more broadly. Earlier this month, President Donald J. Trump has posted on Truth Social, “Israel will not be bombing Lebanon any longer. They are PROHIBITED from doing so by the U.S.A. Enough is enough!!!” Israel Breaks Lebanon Ceasefire With Wave of Airstrikes.
Years of allegations of SPLC misconduct, politicized “hate” labeling, and media double standards converge as scrutiny shifts toward corporate accountability Holding the SPLC Accountable.
The order, issued late last week, dealt with the case of Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago, a DACA illegal alien. Santiago had deportation proceedings against her terminated by federal immigration judge Michael Pleters, the husband of Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX), citing her DACA status. DOJ Panel Ensures DHS Can More Easily Deport DACA Illegal Aliens
while the suggestion was likely in jest, it forms part of the ongoing debate around ICE’s role in executing the Trump administration’s deportation agenda, which has seen liberal journalists and leading Democrats, such as failed 2024 vice presidential candidate and Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz, compare them to Adolf Hitler’s Gestapo. Administration officials accuse journalists and Democrats pushing this rhetoric of inciting violent protests against ICE, and in some cases, targeted attacks, such as a sniper ambush at an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas, last July that resulted in a police officer being shot in the neck. Trump May Rename ‘ICE.’ Here’s The Suggested New Name, and Why.
Mass immigration plus welfare policy has turned American earnings into a global subsidy, with billions flowing abroad through remittances instead of staying in the U.S. Remittances: The US Is Not the World’s Cash Cow
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
The amendment targets funding tied to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and related highway safety programs, which support the implementation of Section 24220 of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act under the former Biden junta. Importantly, Roy is pushing for the amendment to be attached to the GOP FISA deal currently being marked up in the House Rules Committee. EXCLUSIVE: ‘Kill Switch’ Amendment Could Shake Up The Capitol Hill FISA Fight
. . . the government, under both Republicans and Democrats, has been bilking taxpayers to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. It gets worse every year. But as luck would have it, getting a start on it has been made easy with some very big and very recent busts. J.D. Vance’s War On Welfare Fraud Can’t Pause
In a statement about the Louisiana bill, the activist coalition Housing Not Handcuffs referenced “chain gangs” and “entrenched white supremacy.” The National Homelessness Law Center declared that the bill evokes “debtors’ prisons, convict leasing, and Jim Crow.” Other activists compared the bill to slavery. (it must be absolutely fanastic! - jjs) With Louisiana Homeless Bill, Democrats Once Again Smear Sensible Policy As ‘Jim Crow’
NBC News reports that the trial, scheduled to run for four weeks, represents both a business dispute and a personal conflict between two of technology’s most prominent figures. At its center lies the question of whether OpenAI betrayed its nonprofit mission when it transformed into a for-profit enterprise. AI Cage Match: Elon Musk and Sam Altman Face Off in Court to Determine OpenAI’s Future
If Newsom decides to run for President in 2028, it is likely that his opposition to the measure, which is popular with grassroots Democrats and the left more broadly, will become a source of criticism. Newsom’s second term as Governor is scheduled to end in January 2027, with Trump-backed Republican candidate Steve Hilton currently leading in the packed race to replace him. State Ballot Wealth Tax Amasses Enough Signatures.
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
President Trump issued a Defense Product Act-based executive order to get oil flowing again off the California coast. State judge basically ruled a previous California court injunction against offshore oil drilling superseded that EO. Federal Power Meets California Resistance in Santa Ynez Oil Restart Battle
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Real progress has been slow. Thanks to an impossible permitting process and a gauntlet of California red tape, in large swaths of the Palisades, nothing has been done. Still, that hasn’t stopped Bass, Newsom, and other Democrats from asking for billions in federal money. Karen Bass Faces Serious Questions After Leaked Phone Call On Palisades Fire
POLITICS
Hearings on Virginia’s Tuesday redistricting special election began Monday with the fate of four additional Democrat congressional seats hinging on whether the state’s 45-day early voting period constitutes an ongoing election. Following the hearing, former Virginia Attorney General and head of the Election Transparency Initiative, Ken Cuccinelli, laid out the current and potential future cases before the Virginia Supreme Court that are challenging the state’s attempt to gerrymander its congressional map in favor of Democrats as the midterm elections approach. The Left’s Obsession With Early Voting May Lose Them Seats In Virginia
Republicans would gain four seats if the new congressional map were to pass, which would cause Florida’s delegation in the House to be represented by 24 Republicans and three Democrats, Fox News first reported. The new map was released after voters in Virginia approved a referendum that would give Democrats an advantage in ten out of 11 of the state’s congressional districts. Florida Rolls Out Congressional Map That Could Erase Virginia Dems’ Gerrymander Advantage
If Republicans don’t act fast, Virginia will turn into Colorado, but it doesn’t have to happen that way, although it’ll be hard to undo the damage. Can Virginia Be Fixed?
. . . if what the Bahamian government is saying is, indeed, true, the Biden junta ignored a country that is just a two- to three-hour boat ride from our shores, so much so that it ended up deeper in bed with China, practically allowing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) access to camp out on our coast. Did Biden Send the Bahamas Straight to Beijing?
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS
The Ukrainian president noted that Chernobyl is still dangerous. The radiation from the 1986 incident is contained within a massive metal and concrete “sarcophagus” which was covered with a larger second structure known as the New Safe Confinement (NSC) after it was deemed too dangerous to repair flaws in the original sarcophagus. Zelensky Accuses Russia of ‘Nuclear Terrorism’ on 40th Anniversary of Chernobyl Meltdown
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
While the U.S. Navy remains the world’s most powerful fleet, the shipbuilding deficit is disconcerting, both militarily and from a civilian standpoint. Shipbuilding is National Security
The outcome of the case could influence public health and voter turnout in the 2026 midterm elections, particularly among MAHA women who prioritize health issues. A conflict between the MAHA movement and the Trump administration could fracture the broad political alliance that helped Trump win in 2024. MAHA vs Trump Admin: SCOTUS Protests After EPA Caves to Big Pharma.
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
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The datacenter will use 9GW of power once it is completed, and the entire rest of Utah currently uses around 4GW. Drawing that much electricity from the grid might prove impractical, so the project managers chose a site near the Ruby Pipeline, and the datacenter will be powered by on-site gas generators. A lot of them.
Which is an interesting trick, and though the direct utility is somewhat limited, the aspect of training an LLM on a carefully curated dataset rather than throwing the internet at it seems sound.
Also, with examples of code provided, Talkie was able to generate new, correct Python programs. Though whether this is an inherent ability or data contamination is not easily determined.
This may be a bigger story than it seems. We know that none of the AI companies are remotely profitable, meaning that all AI usage right now is being subsidised by investors. The question is, how much will prices go up when this is applied across the industry, and will it be enough to kill off crawling nightmares like Steve Yegge's Gas City?
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: And now, here's A Walk in the Black Forest.
“Ballroom construction is continuing unabated until June 5th at the earliest because the injunction is on hold. We have always acknowledged the utility of a larger meeting space at the White House. Building it lawfully requires the approval of Congress, which the administration could seek at any time.” National Trust for Historic Preservation President and CEO Carol Quillen
*Because thinking outside of the box never occurred to this box.
Three people were sentenced to jail in an insurance fraud scheme that involved dressing up as a bear and staging fake attacks.
Alfiya Zuckerman, 39, Ruben Tamrazian, 26, and Vahe Muradkhanyan, 32, pleaded no contest to felony insurance fraud (injuring or destroying insured property) in the "Operation Bear Claw" investigation. The scheme involved the suspects claiming a bear entered their 2010 Rolls-Royce Ghost and destroyed the interior, according to a California Department of Insurance (CDI) news release.
After their November 2024 arrest, each was sentenced to 180 days in jail and two years of supervised probation on Thursday, April 16. Zuckerman was ordered to pay $55,360 in restitution; Tamrazian, $52,268; while Muradkhanyan's restitution amount is still being determined.
A fourth suspect, Ararat Chirkinian, 39, is scheduled to return to court for a preliminary hearing in September 2026.
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The baby elephant abandoned by its herd had fallen into depression and lost its will to live… until it met a dog named Duma and they became friends. ❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/qepWLIRECD
The mother squirrel gently takes the hand of the woman who feeds her every day in the garden and leads her to her nest to introduce her to her babies. This is aweeeee! 🤗🤗 pic.twitter.com/pBW2f6xT07
From @lukerosiak: Biden's SBA hid that it was giving $90 million in loans to Planned Parenthood by referring to Planned Parenthood as "Benghazi" in emails.
It was ruled that Planned Parenthood was ineligible for SBA loans -- so Biden officials granted those loans anyway, claiming the loans went to... "Benghazi"?
Biden administration officials may have broken the law by concealing small business loans to Planned Parenthood, a senator said Monday.
Small Business Administration officials disbursed and forgave loans to Planned Parenthood and its affiliates even after the agency determined that the group is not a small business that would be eligible. Top officials, including Biden SBA Administrator Isabella Guzman, concealed their maneuvering on the topic by substituting the words Planned Parenthood with "Benghazi" in emails, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who chairs the committee that oversees the agency, revealed Monday.
"We now know that after the SBA Biden officials met, planned and strategized (over 'Benghazi'), keeping the White House involved, approximately $90 million in Planned Parenthood SBA PPP loans and interest on the loans were forgiven by the Biden administration," she said.
Ernst asked the Department of Justice to investigate the officials under a statute that says anyone who attempts to conceal a federal record can be imprisoned for up to three years, according to a letter first obtained by The Daily Wire.
America's Sweetheart, reading from a cue card, shows her firm command of American history when she says that the Insurrection Act was last invoked to deport Germans, Japanese, and Italians during, and I do quote, "World War Eleven."
See they wrote "World War II" and this totally-real US citizen didn't recognize that and thought America had been involved in eleven world wars.
Melania posted on X Monday, "Kimmel's hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn't comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America." That is exactly what we see across the political left in America now, a sickness that has pervaded not only their politics, but their minds and their morals as well.
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Then, Melania continued by challenging the networks that platform such incredibly dangerous rhetoric. "People like Kimmel shouldn't have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate. A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him," she said. "Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC's leadership enable Kimmel's atrocious behavior at the expense of our community."
I like her spirit, but the Disney Goomer Network is all about stirring murderous hate against normies and transing children.
"Although we don't yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it's incumbent upon all of us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy," Obama wrote on X. "It's also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I'm grateful to them -- and thankful that the agent who was shot is going to be okay."
There's just one huge problem with Obama's statement. We already knew the shooter's motive at this point. Obama posted his statement at 5:15 p.m. EDT on Sunday, and the shooter's manifesto and its contents were first published late Sunday morning.
I just mentioned this tactic of deception last week -- liberals claim "we don't know the details" as a way to pretend they don't know the basics. If you challenge them later, and prove, as it is proven here, they knew most of the motive, they will say "Well I said I didn't know all of the details. What, you're criticizing me for not jumping the gun?"
Since then, we learned all of the details.
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🚨 FULL MANIFESTO: Trump White House Correspondents' Dinner Shooter Cole Allen details his motives and targets:
"Hello everybody!
So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused.
I apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for "Most Wanted."
I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency (by the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly DO need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status.)
I apologize to all of the people I traveled next to, all the workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non-targeted people at the hotel who I put in danger simply by being near.
I apologize to everyone who was abused and/or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all who may still suffer after, regardless of my success or failure.
I don't expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies.
On to why I did any of this:
I am a citizen of the United States of America.
What my representatives do reflects on me.
And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.
(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I've had to do something about it.)
While I'm discussing this, I'll also go over my expected rules of engagement (probably in a terrible format, but I'm not military so too bad.)
Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest
Secret Service: they are targets only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible (aka, I hope they're wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who *aren't*
Hotel Security: not targets if at all possible (aka unless they shoot at me)
Capitol Police: same as Hotel Security
National Guard: same as Hotel Security
Hotel Employees: not targets at all
Guests: not targets at all
In order to minimize casualties I will also be using buckshot rather than slugs (less penetration through walls)
I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people *chose* to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn't come to that.
Rebuttals to objections:
Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.
Rebuttal: Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I'm not the person raped in a detention camp. I'm not the fisherman executed without trial. I'm not a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration.
Turning the other cheek when *someone else* is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor's crimes.
Objection 2: This is not a convenient time for you to do this.
Rebuttal: I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple minutes and realize that the world isn't about them. Do you think that when I see someone raped or murdered or abused, I should walk on by because it would be "inconvenient" for people who aren't the victim?
This was the best timing and chance of success I could come up with.
Objection 3: You didn't get them all.
Rebuttal: Gotta start somewhere.
Objection 4: As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn't be the one doing this.
Rebuttal: I don't see anyone else picking up the slack
Objection 5: Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar's.
Rebuttal: The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.
I would also like to extend my appreciation to a great many people since I will not be likely to be able to talk with them again (unless the Secret Service is *astoundingly* incompetent.)
Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.
Thank you to my friends, for your companionship over many years.
Thank you to my colleagues over many jobs, for your positivity and professionalism.
Thank you to my students for your enthusiasm and love of learning.
Thank you to the many acquaintances I've met, in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.
Thank you all for everything.
Sincerely,
Cole "coldForce" "Friendly Federal Assassin" Allen
PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.
Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.
What I got (who knows, maybe they're pranking me!) is nothing.
No damn security.
Not in transport.
Not in the hotel.
Not in the event.
Like, the one thing that I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is the sense of arrogance.
I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.
The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.
Like, this level of incompetence is insane, and I very sincerely hope it's corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.
Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed shit.
Actually insane.
Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it's awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.
Bill Maher drags his woke guest out of his liberal bubble and tells him to his face he's why Kamala Harris lost.
It all started when David Cross revealed his 9-year-old daughter has "trans friends."
"Wait, she has trans friends in third grade?" Maher asked.
Cross replied: "Yep," as if it's completely normal and something society should embrace.
That's when Maher dropped the hammer and told him straight up that no, somebody's doing something to that little girl.
Cross immediately got defensive, but Maher refused to back down.
He told Cross that believing a 9-year-old girl is deciding to be trans on her own is exactly the kind of liberal insanity that lost Kamala Harris the election in 2024.
And if Democrats keep it up, JD Vance is going to win in 2028.
By the end of this exchange, Cross is left sitting there looking like a deer in headlights, like he's never been challenged on "trans kids" in his life.
This is a moment worth watching, but if you're somewhere you can't play it, the transcript is below:
MAHER: "You need to be checked. People need to be checked... including your little girl."
CROSS: "Fck that btch. (joking) Fck that little btch with her black friends and trans friends and not even understanding."
MAHER: "Trans?! Wait, she has trans friends in third grade?"
CROSS: "Yep."
MAHER: "They know they're trans in third grade?"
CROSS: "Just the coolest kid."
MAHER: "[Is kid transitioning from] girl to boy?"
CROSS: "Girl to boy. And she has another very close friend who's not in the school, but who's boy to girl at three years old."
MAHER: "A woman said [to me] 'I was what they called a tomboy. If I was alive now and acted the way I did then, that's what they would have done to me.'"
CROSS: "Well, nobody's doing this to her."
MAHER: "Well, I don't know."
CROSS: "Literally nobody is doing this to her."
MAHER: "How old?"
CROSS: "She is -- or HE is -- either eight or I think nine."
MAHER: "Okay, then somebody is doing something because eight or nine-year-olds can't do anything on their own."
CROSS: "No, they're buying them boys' clothes."
MAHER: "Well then, they're doing something."
CROSS: "Sure. Yes, you're right. They're buying them boys' clothes."
MAHER: "And telling them you're a boy now."
CROSS: "No, no, they're not telling them. They're just agreeing with [them]."
MAHER: "Agreeing with an 8-year-old. Because when has their judgment ever been off at 8?"
CROSS: "You know you knew you weren't gay, right?"
MAHER: "Yeah, that's different."
CROSS: "It's not different."
MAHER: "It is different. Good luck with President Vance. Because, as I always say to my woke friends, we voted for the same person. You're just why she lost and this is a case of that."
CROSS: "Wait, what?"
MAHER: "We voted for the same person..."
CROSS: "Right."
MAHER: "You're just why she lost. Because America hears this, and they're going to go, 'Bill's right. Eight-year-olds can't really make decisions on their own like this.' That's what most people are going to say."
Bill Maher drags his woke guest out of his liberal bubble and tells him to his face he’s why Kamala Harris lost.
It all started when David Cross revealed his 9-year-old daughter has “trans friends.”
“Wait, she has trans friends in third grade?” Maher asked.
HOLY CRAP! Karoline Leavitt is calling out Democrats BY NAME who SPARKED the rhetoric leading to Saturday's attempt on President Trump's life
🔵 "Rep Hakeem Jeffrey just THIS MONTH said, 'we are in an era of maximum warfare everywhere all the time.'"
🔵 "Governor Josh Shapiro said heads need to roll within the administration."
🔵 "Senator Alex Padilla said people are DYING because of fear and terror caused by the Trump administration."
🔵 "Senator Elizabeth Warren: President Trump is making the country look like a 'FASCIST STATE'"
🔵 "Senator Adam Schiff saying President Trump using a dictator playbook"
Senator Ed Markey calling President Trump a dictator, saying that this administration's actions are authoritarism on STEROIDS"
🔵 "Governor JB Pritzker: 'Never before in my life have I called for mass protest disruptions. These Republicans cannot know a MOMENT of peace.'"
🔵 "Rep. Pressley saying we'll see you in the streets."
🔵 Monica M McIver, a Democrat representative on Capitol Hill, we will "not take this sh*t from Donald Trump. He thinks he's a DICTATOR. We are at WAR!"
"These are Democrat elected officials calling for WAR against the president of the United States and his supporters."
HOLY CRAP! Karoline Leavitt is calling out Democrats BY NAME who SPARKED the rhetoric leading to Saturday's attempt on President Trump's life
🔵 "Rep Hakeem Jeffrey just THIS MONTH said, 'we are in an era of maximum warfare everywhere all the time.'"
Leaking the fact that we are about to take military action to a podcaster with questionable foreign ties puts American real lives at-risk. https://t.co/1QN2snNVQB
Iran gave the U.S. a new proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war, with nuclear negotiations postponed for a later stage, according to a U.S. official and two sources with knowledge.
Oh great, we get to end the embargo and end offensive actions against Iran, and they get to keep their nuke program.
What a great proposal. We've never had a great proposal from Iran like this before, except for the last thirty years.
Why it matters: The diplomacy is in a stalemate, and the Iranian leadership is divided about what nuclear concessions should be on the table. The Iranian proposal would bypass that issue en route to a faster deal.
But lifting the blockade and ending the war would remove President Trump's leverage in any future talks to remove Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium and convince Tehran to suspend enrichment -- two primary war objectives for Trump.
What to watch: Trump is expected to hold a Situation Room meeting on Iran on Monday with his top national security and foreign policy team, according to three U.S. officials.
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Trump signaled in an interview with Fox News on Sunday that he wants to continue the naval blockade that is choking off Iran's oil exports, hoping it will get Tehran to cave over the next few weeks.
"When you have vast amounts of oil pouring through your system ... if for any reason this line is closed because you can't put it into containers or ships ... what happens is that line explodes from within. ... They say they only have about three days before that happens," Trump said.
Marco Rubio also declared that Iran's idea that "opening the Strait" means that they get to decide who can transit the strait and collect tolls from them is a non-starter.
Iranian woman tells a white liberal woman "You don't speak for us. We are very happy with President Trump. We want to name cities after him." pic.twitter.com/qoO4sVcxQx
When the Bullets Stopped Flying, Alcoholic "Journalist" Karens Focused On What Really Matters, and Looted 147 Wine Bottles from the Venue
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Incredible. Give yourselves all a media award for Stunning Bravery.
Peter Girnus 🦅
@gothburz
I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired.
The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass.
A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed.
Everything else was improvised.
I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76.
What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation.
I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one.
She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure.
The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet.
The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent.
That's priority.
The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago.
A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced.
That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details.
I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column.
I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously.
188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken.
A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.
I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired.
The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass.
there may be no perfect allegory for modern media, but in a pinch, i’ll take
“a woman with 30 grand worth of plastic surgery and wearing a sable coat stealing wine bottles off the table at a correspondent’s dinner right after the place got cleared out because someone tried to… pic.twitter.com/OzR2UmaoOh
Gov. Ron DeSantis dropped a political bomb on Monday, unveiling a new congressional map for Florida that he says will finally give the Sunshine State the representation it deserves -- and if it holds up, Republicans could walk away with four additional U.S. House seats heading into the 2026 midterms.
The proposal is a mid-decade redraw of Florida's congressional districts, and it's already getting a friendly reception. Republicans control both chambers of the Florida legislature, so passage is more a matter of when than if. Once the map clears the House and Senate, it comes back to DeSantis for his signature.
The governor has been telegraphing this move for a while, and he's not shy about explaining why. Florida was "shortchanged" in the 2020 Census, DeSantis argues, despite explosive population growth and a seismic shift in the state's political landscape. The state has gone from a Democratic voter-registration advantage to a 1.5-million Republican edge -- a transformation that the current congressional map simply doesn't reflect.
"Florida got shortchanged in the 2020 Census, and we've been fighting for fair representation ever since," DeSantis said.
But his argument isn't just political -- he's also making a constitutional case. The existing district lines, he contends, were drawn based on race, and that's a problem. "Drawing maps based on race, which is reflected in our current congressional districts, is unconstitutional and should be prohibited," DeSantis said, framing the remap as both a legal correction and a democratic one.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has released a draft congressional map ahead of the state's special redistricting session.
Compared to the current map (left), the new map (right) would eliminate as many as 4 Democratic representatives - 2 in central Florida and 2 in south Florida. pic.twitter.com/rdVKUGQi7M
That image makes it look like there's just one Democrat district, but there are four. There are three on the east coast which aren't visible because the image is cropped on the right.
Hakeem Jeffries, the nephew of black supremacist and cuckoo racial conspiracy theorist Leonard Jeffries, is threatening to come to Florida to campaign against the map.
DeSantis begs him to come. He says he'll put him up in the Governor's Mansion, because nothing would animate Republicans more than seeing this jackass invading their state.
🚨 BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis UNVEILS 2026 Congressional map and Republicans stand to FLIP +4 seats red — Fox
LFG! Play hardball!
Florida needs to cancel out the Democrat shenanigans.
Meanwhile, Leonard Jeffries' nephew is threatening the Virginia Supreme Court, which is now hearing arguments over the illegal Virginia gerrymander: Rule the way we want or else.
Hakeem Jeffries to Virginia Supreme Court: Uphold Spanbergers map 'or else.'
It's like he's trying to scare them into bending the knee.
They're relying on the leftwing judiciary to hand them a victory. Nothing more. If that doesn't happen, they're FCKED. pic.twitter.com/Yq3HVteK39
New Documents: FBI Opened and Then Immediately Closed a Fakey-Fake "Inquiry" Into the Clinton Foundation's Obvious Pay-for-Play Scheme with Foreign Governments
This morning Sen. Chuck Grassley released the FBI Washington Field Office's 12-page "electronic communication" (EC) that opened a preliminary investigation into the Clinton Foundation. Its extensive evidence of potential pay-to-play criminality among the Clinton family confirms the politicalization and weaponization of the Department of Justice.
Late last year, another trove of documents--also released by Grassley--summarized the origins of three separate FBI investigations into the Clinton Foundation, opened respectively out of the New York, Little Rock, and Washington D.C. field offices. As The Federalist reported at that time, those documents indicated that Ray Hulser, then head of the Department of Justice's Public Integrity Section (PIN), did not support the investigations into the Clinton Foundation and withheld information from the U.S. attorney's office running the probe out of Little Rock.
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Hulser's refusal to open an investigation out of PIN, and his excuse that the FBI presented the case "poorly," just cannot be reconciled with the detailed summary contained in the EC that is now public. As Grassley highlighted in a letter sent today to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel, "Included in the FBI's EC are numerous allegations of foreign influence concerns that arose 'from speaking fees and donations to the [Clinton] Foundation.'"
The Iowa senator then pulls a few examples from the Washington Field Office's opening communication, beginning with donations to the Clinton Foundation totaling $2.35 million from the then-head of the Russia government's uranium company, Uranium One.
The EC is not limited to evidence about Uranium One. It also details evidence of donations to the Clinton Foundation from an executive of Polo Resources. Eight weeks later, it says, the U.S. ambassador to Bangladesh persuaded the prime minister to reauthorize pit mining, including one in which Polo Resources had an interest. Another section of the EC highlights evidence suggesting a pay-to-play scheme involving Colombian timber and another Clinton Foundation donor.
The FBI EC also notes that Hillary Clinton traveled to Russia, where she allegedly prompted >o?"Russian officials to enter into a $3.7 billion aircraft purchase with Boeing," then two months later Boeing pledged $900,000 to the Clinton Foundation.>o? The EC further discussed the Haitian government awarding Hillary Clinton's brother a "rare 'gold exception permit' (the first issued in 50 years)...during the same time period in which 'billions of U.S. tax dollars had been spent in Haiti, following the Haitian earthquake in 2010.'"
What--if anything--the FBI did to investigate these additional potential pay-to-play schemes before the Department of Justice closed the investigations in 2016 is unclear. What we do know, though, is that after Donald Trump's election in 2016, Little Rock was able to reopen its investigation, but Hulser and the Department of Justice continued to interfere in the investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
And of course this pudgy Talent Vacuum also staged a counter-roast on ABC, and lusted for the death of Trump minutes before one his correligionists tried to kill him.
Can you even imagine someone saying this about Michelle Obama during Obama's presidency? How did we get here? https://t.co/0e2k72XAVQ
Norah O'Donnell Attempts to Convince Trump (and Her Viewers, of Course) That the Killer Was Right to Try to Kill Him
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Just a quickie. Apologies for being a bad blogger.
Their usual cover story -- "we may never know the motive" -- has been demolished so they're going with their true beliefs: "Don't you agree that the assassin was right to assassinate you?"
Steve Guest
@SteveGuest
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President Donald Trump just obliterated Norah O'Donnell on 60 Minutes after she tried to smear POTUS with the vile attacks contained within the WHCD shooter's manifesto.
Trump FIGHTS BACK, concluding by calling O'Donnell "disgraceful."
O'Donnell: The so-called manifesto is a stunning thing to read, Mr. President. He appears to reference a motive in it. He writes this quote, "Administration officials, they are targets." And he also wrote this, "I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes." What's your reaction to that?
Trump: Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, because you're, you're, you're horrible people, horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody.
O'Donnell Oh, you think, you think he was referring to you?
Trump: Excuse me, excuse me. I'm not a pedophile. You read that crap from some sick person. I got associated with all stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let's say, Epstein or other things. But I said to myself, you know, I'll do this interview and they'll probably-- I read the manifesto. You know, he's a sick person. But you should be ashamed of yourself reading that because I'm not any of those things. And I was never--excuse me, excuse me. You shouldn't be reading that on 60 Minutes. You're a disgrace. But go ahead, let's finish the interview.
O'Donnell: The other thing that he wrote in the-- the other thing in the manifesto--
President Donald Trump just obliterated Norah O’Donnell on 60 Minutes after she tried to smear POTUS with the vile attacks contained within the WHCD shooter’s manifesto.
Trump FIGHTS BACK, concluding by calling O’Donnell “disgraceful.”
Reminder that Norah O'Donnell squashed CBS correspondent Catherine Herridge's reporting on Hunter Biden laptop before the 2020 election. Herridge later was forced out of CBS. O'Donnell keeps her job, applying the opposite standards to Trump than she did with Biden.…
In the final days of the 2024 presidential campaign, Norah O’Donnell opened her CBS show mad about Trump getting in a garbage truck after Biden called Trump supporters “garbage."
She ran cover for Biden’s comment, calling it a “gaffe” and lamented that Trump was “giving no… pic.twitter.com/QSFJ8RfuqQ
THE MORNING RANT: Senator John Cornyn is learning that “Trust me, I’m lying” doesn’t work like it used to
—Buck Throckmorton
“Trust me, I’m lying” is a formerly effective campaign strategy that is no longer very effective. Unfortunately for Senator John Cornyn (RINO – TX), it’s all he has left to promise in his desperate attempt to win a 5th term of betraying Texas Republicans.
The way “Trust me, I’m lying” is supposed to work is that a politician lies to the voters back home about positions the voters care about (border security, 2nd Amendment, ballot integrity, etc.) Meanwhile, the politician’s true constituency – the Washington establishment - knows that their candidate is being necessarily dishonest with voters to get re-elected.
Unfortunately for Senator Cornyn, he has a long record of being open-border, anti-MAGA, anti-Trump, anti-2nd Amendment, anti-ballot integrity, and generally working to ensure that the Senate never addresses actual problems that voters expect to be addressed. His recent attempts at “Trust me, I’m lying”are having the opposite of the intended effect. Conservative voters know he’s lying, while the Democrat & RINO crossover voters he could formerly count on are drifting to Talarico as Cornyn offends them by posturing as an actual conservative.
Cornyn has been stating during this campaign that he opposes an open border and amnesty, telling the El Paso Times a few weeks ago that, “The first thing we need to do is secure the border. There is no way that the American people, and certainly my constituents in Texas, would allow us to take another stab at reforming our immigration laws until we’ve got the border secure.” Everyone knows he’s lying by now - he’s been elected four times to the US Senate by lying to Texans about border security. But his campaign made a mistake. While they have done a good job scrubbing their campaign site of English-language speeches where he advocated for open borders and amnesty, they didn’t scrub the Spanish-language videos from his You Tube page.
The indefatigable Scott Presler just found Spanish-language video from 2020 of John Cornyn promising amnesty to illegal aliens.
SCOOP
In an unearthed video, Senator Cornyn’s team forgot to delete a video from YouTube
where Cornyn advocates for amnesty for illegal aliens.
It would be a shame if every Republican in Texas sees this before the May 26th runoff.
As documented by Texas Scorecard, “The video, which was previously available on his official YouTube channel, was quickly removed after circulation on social media.” Unfortunately for Team Cornyn, the video is still flying around the internet thanks to Mr. Presler.
Perhaps the biggest issue involving the Senate right now is the “SAVE Act,” which would use the force of power of federal law to eradicate much of the nationwide ballot fraud. Real conservative Ken Paxton is challenging Cornyn in the Republican senate primary, and Paxton is promising to eliminate the “zombie filibuster” so as to pass the SAVE Act. Cornyn, of course, has pretended that he supports the SAVE Act while hiding behind the zombie filibuster’s 60-vote threshold to make sure it doesn’t actually happen. As Presler and so many others have pointed out, the real filibuster is still an option, requiring only 50-votes.
In desperation, Cornyn tried the “Trust me, I’m lying” tactic regarding the filibuster, too. His campaign put out a tweet stating that, ”I support using the talking filibuster & making any changes necessary to Senate rules to get this passed.”
��I just voted for the SAVE America Act, & I support using the talking filibuster & making any changes necessary to Senate rules to get this passed.
I am glad that the Senate will debate this bill & hold Democrats’ feet to the fire to see who is willing to go on record opposing… https://t.co/tpsjHkZXr6
Because Cornyn had previously stated that eliminating the no-debate filibuster would be ”taking a wrecking ball to Senate rules,”an NBC reporter confronted Cornyn on his sudden about-face. With his contradictory positions being exposed by a media reporter, how did Cornyn explain the contradiction? He didn’t. He shoved his hand in the face of the reporter and told her ”I think we’re through. Go away.”
Reporter (Brennan Leach): You previously said that nuking the filibuster would be taking a wrecking ball to Senate rules. Is that no longer true?
Sen. John Cornyn: Um, I said I’d be open to reforms.
Reporter: What would you say to those who say you just changed your mind to win the President’s endorsement?
Sen. John Cornyn: I would say that’s not true.
Reporter: You also said—
Sen. John Cornyn: (interrupting, raising hand to block the camera) I think we’re through. Go away. Thank you.
(Cornyn then walks into an elevator as the clip ends.)
Cornyn is about to be retired. Maybe other politicians will finally learn that ”Trust me, I’m lying” also needs to be retired as a political strategy.
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Throckmorton’s First Law of Live Music: “If there’s an upright bass in the band, it’s probably going to be good”
I’ve posted several pieces about political/legal battles involving Monte Warden and his family. Not today.
Instead of politics, I’m just going to post a video of my pal Monte Warden and his band the Wagoneers shakin’ the Grand Ole Opry a week ago. Hold on tight for some old-fashioned rockabilly with Doghouse Flowers.
From The @opry on Sat! DOGHOUSE FLOWERS video! Standback - it's a scorcher! Thank you for the fans for puttin' up such great stuff...and THANK YOU to The Opry for havin' us!! pic.twitter.com/VZCd9SXKDJ
Good morning kids, We are overloaded with links this morning as we kick off the last week of April and the overwhelming majority of course are about the failed third assassination attempt on President Trump over the weekend at the White House Correspondents Dinner. There are links peppered across almost every section of the Morning Report. Despite the Leftist/terrorist, (please pardon that redundancy, because let's face it that's what he is) releasing his manifesto just prior to his attack, perhaps the most ridiculous commentary came from the horrid purple lipped dog hole of Barack Obama:
Former President Barack Obama insisted Sunday the “details” of the motives of an armed man who allegedly tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner were unknown, hours after a media outlet published the suspect’s manifesto.
“Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents [sic] Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy,” Obama wrote. “It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I’m grateful to them – and thankful that the agent who was shot is going to be okay.”
I refuse to quote this evil Leftist degenerate but hE/it's extensively quoted in virtually every link where you can read for yourself the litany of slanders and blood libels hurled at our President.
There was nothing radical about Cole Tomas Allen: the attempted White House Correspondents’ Dinner assassin. Allen’s manifesto reads a lot like that of the previous three-named assassin Ryan Wesley Routh who was stalking President Trump at a golf game. . . There’s a vagueness to the litany that suggests Allen had a weak grip on where these supposed things were even happening and what the connection to it was beyond justifying his attack.
Rather than Marxism, Routh and Allen offered tepid shopworn liberalism as their justification for murder, “U.S presidents must at bare minimum embody the moral fabric that is America and be kind, caring and selfless and always stand for humanity” and “the United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.”
. . . Allen and Routh's views were generally those of mainstream liberal Democrats. They were no more extreme than your average MSNBC viewer. Probably even a smidgen more moderate. And they were probably no more radical than the average committed Democrat.
This is not some grassroots phenomenon but the messaging from the top down of the party and its media apparatus. That&'s why Allen’s views are entirely reflective of their rhetoric. He wasn't a Marxist, a Communist or a Socialist… his views were those of the mainstream of his party. (The amount of distance between the Democrats and the Marxists of course is rapidly shrinking.)
But Allen didn't try to kill Trump and members of his administration officials in the name of socialized medicine, a command economy, the working class or any affirmative leftist cause.
He did it because he had been brainwashed into believing he was stopping Hitler 2.0. . .
. . . But the record number of assassinations shows that they have created a party of assassins. Those who have created a party of assassins bear the ultimate responsibility for the violence.
A Party of Assassins cannot offer America anything except murder, treason and death.
So then, what is to be done about a party of assassins? The bitter irony here is that the deranged motivations to kill President Trump and to physically wipe out all of us who either support him or at a bare minimum simply disagree, openly or secretly, oppose Democrats via normal political discourse and processes and debate (when/if permitted), are or would be the sane choice we may yet have to make to stop the very real existential threat to our lives, liberty and nation.
I hate the Left not only for what they are, believe and what they have done to this nation virtually unchecked for at least the past 70 years and indeed our entire history, but for what they may one day force us to visit upon their collective head, not out of revenge but out of simple self-preservation.
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The suspect was ultimately stopped. But that isn’t proof that the system worked, in fact, it’s evidence that every decision made leading up to the moment didn’t. The Secret Service Failed Trump — Again
“I have no personal problem with Donald Trump at all,” Raskin fired back. “I mean, I talk about the policies of this administration, the authoritarianism, like we saw on display in Minneapolis, where two of our citizens were gunned down in the streets simply for exercising their First Amendment rights: Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and others have died in custody.” Watch Dem Rep Jamie Raskin’s Deer-In-Headlights Reaction To Suggestion To Turn Down Anti-Trump Rhetoric
The document, which a family member provided to law enforcement, outlined Allen’s plan to target Trump administration officials in order of rank while carving out an exception for FBI Director Kash Patel, The New York Post (NYP) reported. “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” Allen wrote in the manifesto, according to the NYP. Alleged WHCD Shooter Reportedly Sent Anti-Trump Manifesto To Family Just Before Rushing Ballroom
Trump administration Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Special Envoy for Peace Missions Jared Kushner were scheduled to travel Saturday morning to the Pakistani capital of Islamabad and participate in direct talks with an Iranian delegation. Trump, however, announced in a Saturday afternoon Truth Social post that he canceled the trip, stating it would be “[t]oo much time wasted on traveling, too much work!” Trump Pulls Plug On US Delegation’s Trip To Iran Talks
Netanyahu’s disclosure comes as he prepares for a high-stakes visit to the White House, where discussions on a long-term peace strategy in the conflict with Iran are expected. His health update comes as the new Supreme Leader of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei, is also reportedly facing health issues, and may require a prosthetic leg and plastic surgery due to injuries suffered in an Israeli air strike. Israeli PM Netanyahu Undergoes Treatment for Cancer.
Roger Kimball: Trump isn’t negotiating with Iran—he’s dismantling its regime piece by piece, leaving a hollow state with nothing left but bluster and collapse. Chekhov’s Lesson for Tehran
The case is one of more than 50 espionage-related indictments filed against Israelis since the October 7, 2023, terror raids against Israel by Hamas and the subsequent outbreak of the Gaza war. Israeli security commentators are reportedly describing the espionage issue as an “epidemic... Israeli Air Force Technicians Arrested for Spying for Iran.
The changes aim to close loopholes that allow “dark money” to flow through non-profits. The changes aim to minimize the chances for anonymity provisions to be used for fraud while also addressing the growing concern that groups like the SPLC help manufacture “hate” in order to generate revenue. How the SPLC Indictment Will Change ‘Dark Money’ Operations Forever.
The Democrats' facade is starting to crumble, and once it has fully cracked it will reveal an anti-American organization and voting bloc. The Potemkin Party
Tillis previously announced he would oppose any of Trump’s picks for the Federal Reserve after the Department of Justice opened a probe into the renovation of the Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington, placing the nomination of Kevin Warsh in jeopardy. Tillis was later asked about reports that U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro closed the investigation. (RINO Scumbag) Sen Thom Tillis, A Key Holdout Against Trump’s Fed Nominee, Backs Down, Says He’ll Vote To Confirm
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
The real grift isn’t $3.8 billion in aid that returns to American factories many times over. It’s telling millions of listeners (Carlson's, Owens' et al) that America gets “nothing” from its most productive alliance — and cashing the ad checks while the algorithm rewards the rage. The podcasters aren’t serious. The numbers are. Sorry, Israel-haters — US aid pays off big for America and the numbers don’t lie
Times and attitudes shifted, but in 2026 the mainstream, broadcast, print, and entertainment media still persist in making excuses for unhinged acts, particularly in major metropolitan areas. How the Fourth Estate Morphed Into a Fifth Column
There is substantial evidence that the Iran war is creating economic uncertainty. The ongoing conflict has caused significant disruption to the airline industry and a spike in fertilizer costs, impacting already strained American farmers. U.S. Consumer Sentiment Hits Record Low.
Rep. Elise Stefanik’s new book exposes institutional rot and outlines how to restore the Ivy League’s commitment to truth. An Antidote to Ivy League Decay
Federal agents arrested Evan Michael Sands, 26, a “staffer” at the Randazzo School in Coconut Creek just north of Fort Lauderdale on multiple charges after he allegedly used the chat platform Discord and the gaming site Roblox to get the sexually explicit material. Florida Private School Worker Charged with Soliciting Sexual Material from Minors Online
ABORTION
A cabal of “elite Supreme Court litigators” tried to warn Mississippi State Solicitor General Scott Stewart against using Dobbs v. Jackson to target the high bench’s abortion precedent because they believed it would be a “devastating mistake.” The litigator was unconvinced. Dobbs Lawyer Was Pressured To Avoid Taking On Roe. He Chose Courage Instead
The legislation, which would allow citizens to use deadly force to prevent arson, burglary, animal cruelty and robbery in certain situations, passed on party-line votes in the Republican-dominated Tennessee House of Representatives and Tennessee state Senate. Supporters of the legislation argued that law-abiding citizens should be allowed to protect their life’s work, Nashville-area TV station WKRN reported. Fear That’s Long Haunted Gun Owners Could Be Erased In Tennessee
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
“We need to have a very concrete, coordinated strategy.” House Democrats “should build up the case so that when we are in power in January, we’ve created the conditions … to be able to impeach [Trump]." Report: House Dems Already Pushing for Day One Impeachment of Trump
The end of the federal investigation into Powell removes a key hurdle for the confirmation of Kevin Warsh, President Donald J. Trump’s nomination to chair the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. Warsh is on track to take over from Powell when the latter’s tenure ends in May, but the takeover has been obstructed by Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), who objected to the investigation into Powell. DOJ Abandons Investigation Into Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
“We were there front and center,” Fetterman wrote in his post. “That venue wasn’t built to accommodate an event with the line of succession for the U.S. government. After witnessing last night, drop the TDS and build the White House ballroom for events exactly like these.” Fetterman to Democrats: ‘Drop the TDS and Build the White House Ballroom’
London has long been regarded as a Labour stronghold, and if it cannot maintain its strong position there, it is likely to face even heavier losses elsewhere in the May 7 elections. Notably, Khan’s mayoralty is not at risk, as he is not up for reelection until 2028. London Mayor Sadiq Khan Says He’s ‘Scared’ That Britons Are Waking Up.
It is unclear how the U.S. might impose some of the most robust punishments proposed in the email, such as pushing Spain out of NATO. Britain’s reaffirmation of sovereignty hints at the potential for further friction between the Trump administration and Starmer’s government ahead of King Charles III’s state visit to the U.S. Notably, Starmer’s position on the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is much different than his position on the Falklands, with the British premier actively attempting to give the territory away to China-allied Mauritius and Trump urging him to retain it. Rumored Memo Suggests U.S. Could Turn on UK Over Falkland Islands.
Orbán’s rule may have ended, but Hungary’s election shows a deeper shift: nationalist politics remain dominant, even as leadership and strategy evolve. Orbán v. Magyar: The EU Got Played
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS
Residents of Deir al-Balah, one of the few Gaza Strip cities not under the control of the Israeli Defense Force, will cast their ballots in Palestinian Authority municipal elections. The war-torn city of 75,000 is still recovering from years of conflict and destruction that has unfolded since the Israeli ground invasion following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks. Gazans Set To Decide Hamas’ Fate With First Election In 20 Years( Meh, t's the other way around! - jjs)
CommonSpirit Health is the parent company of Dignity Health, which owns and operates Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Carmichael, California, and Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento, according to a report from local outlet Broke Ass Stuart. The outlet shared documents and detailed the accusations of loved ones waiting — in one alleged instance for over a year — only to learn that their family member had died and their corpse had decomposed. Healthcare Giant Prepares For Hearing After Allegedly Mishandling and Desecrating Corpses of Deceased Patients
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The Science article also included this howler: “the mass firing is the latest indication that the White House is ignoring the board’s authority and dictating policies at NSF.” Um, who elected them? No one. In fact, they were appointed by the president himself, and he is the only one with the constitutional authority to decide these matters. Trump fires the entire governing board of the National Science Foundation
The timing of the DOJ announcement and the Pope’s comment on the death penalty could reignite tensions between the White House and the Vatican. President Trump has not hesitated to criticize the Pope, recently claiming that Pope Leo, an American, was selected last year by the College of Cardinals because of him. Pope Pops Off At Trump Again, This Time Over the Death Penalty.
America is built on the concept of equality, but that concept has to be understood properly to prevent the country’s downfall. How Equality Destroys a State
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Thursday that families of USS Arizona crew members have submitted enough genetic reference samples to meet a 60% collection threshold, according to a DPAA press release. Department of War policy mandates that general level of family reference samples before the agency can exhume unknown remains for identification, Stars and Stripes reported. Nearly 150 Dead From Pearl Harbor Attack Could Be On Track For Identification After Milestone Reached
ALSO: The Morning Report cross-posts at CutJibNewsletter.com usually within an hour or so of posting here, if you want to continue the conversation all day.
It's been a while since we've had a big tech news story. No disasters, no miracles. Things haven't suddenly gotten better - or at least, not much, and they haven't gotten drastically worse.
The company PocketOS was using the AI tool Cursor to do some routine maintenance in their staging environment. Cursor found a problem and decided to fix it. To fix it it decided to... Delete the database and all backups.
Okay, not the end of the world; it's the staging environment, not the production environment.
Right?
Oh.
You might ask why they gave Cursor access to the production environment when it was only supposed to be working on staging, and the answer is, they didn't. It hunted around the files it did have access to until it found an API key, and it used that.
On top of that, the hosting service they were using only had snapshots, not independent backups. Delete the database volume (virtual disk) and all the snapshots disappear as well.
The hosting service did manage to recover the volume, though it took some time and was not something a user could do themselves. Remember folks, it's not backed up until you have three copies, in two different formats, on two continents.
The new model is substantially more powerful while being a 100% precise hardware emulation of the original, using an FPGA - basically a chip that you reprogram its circuitry on the fly. But if you reprogram it wrong you could end up with a moderately expensive (the Commodore 64 Ultimate starts at $325) brick.
But it will void your warranty, so brick at your own risk.
Sunday Overnight Open Thread - April 26, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Howdy Hordelings! So glad you could be here for the Sunday night ONT. Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
Fifty years ago on Saturday, an innocuous fourth inning at Dodger Stadium gave way to an indelible moment in baseball -- and American -- history.
On April 25, 1976, the Dodgers hosted the Cubs in the rubber match of a three-game series. In the bottom of the fourth inning, two fans jumped the left-center field fence and hurried onto the outfield grass. Chicago center fielder Rick Monday noted a sound that didn’t match the rhythm of the game. He glanced to his right and saw the trespassers huddled over, unfurling an American flag.
“I can see the guy pull out something real shiny,” Monday told the LA Times in a story published last Sunday. “It turned out to be one of those gigantic cans of lighter fluid. They were dousing it.”
Seriously - would any of today's players do this under similar circumstances?
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Speaking of baseball, this struck me as pretty kewl!
Did you know home plate used to be an actual plate?
In early baseball, players sometimes used dinner plates as markers, which is how “home plate” got its name.
Then it evolved like this:
• 1857: round, about 12 inches across
• 1868: 12-inch square
• 1874: square rotated on its point, creating a ~17-inch diagonal
• 1877: other bases increased to 15 inches, home stayed 12 inches
• 1887: white rubber became standard
• 1900: five-sided plate, 17 inches wide
That last change solved a real problem. The 17-inch width came from the rotated square, but the new angled edges lined up with the first and third base lines, making the strike zone easier to judge.
Baseball really spent 40 years redesigning a dinner plate… and ended up with the most important pentagon in sports.
At the bottom of some mezcal bottles sits one of the most recognizable curiosities in the world of spirits: a pale, curled "worm" preserved in alcohol. It has helped give mezcal an air of mystery for decades, but scientists have now shown that this famous bottle stowaway is not a worm at all.
This has been bothering you for a while now - admit it.
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Have influencers jumped the shark? These parody videos keep hitting my feed.
This is so spot on I almost blocked myself for watching and posting it 😂 The eye contact, the lid toss and the bread squeezing sent me 😆 pic.twitter.com/nVeTOCGyPb
It's that time of the week - when we turn the ONT over to our good friend Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.
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Spring 2026’s Hottest Fashion Collaborations: Fresh Drops Blending Heritage, Vibrance, and Italian Glamour
April feels like a bridge between collections and major events. There is plenty of pre-Met anticipation, but we must get to May for the Met itself. What April has delivered is a wave of exciting collaborations with joyful prints, beachside luxury, and fun silhouettes. Here’s a closer look at four standout partnerships making waves right now.
Le Sirenuse: 75th Anniversary Resort Vibes with Emporio Sirenuse Expansion
The iconic Positano hotel Le Sirenuse is celebrating its 75th anniversary in style with the opening of Le Sirenuse Mare, a new standalone beach club in Nerano on the Amalfi Coast (opened April 23, 2026). This passion project from the Sersale family blends contemporary design, artisanal details, and Mediterranean glamour.
Highlights include sun-lounging terraces, a 180-cover restaurant, three bars, and—most exciting for fashion lovers—the first Emporio Sirenuse flagship boutique outside Positano. Expect signature chintz prints, date palm motifs on embroidered cabana fabrics, resort wear, and home collections that distill the brand’s “new dolce vita” ethos. It’s the ultimate fusion of hospitality and lifestyle, perfect for channeling effortless Italian coastal chic.
Giorgio Armani: Armani/Archivio Capsule Revives 1979–1994 Icons
In a heartfelt tribute to the late designer’s legacy, Giorgio Armani has launched the second chapter of Armani/Archivio. This capsule reproduces 13 men’s and women’s looks from collections spanning 1979 to 1994, making archival pieces available for purchase (rolling out in select stores from early May).
Shot by ERL founder Eli Russell Linnetz, the campaign emphasizes timeless tailoring, essential construction, and the iconic Armani jacket as a defining element. Presented during Milan Design Week with a custom installation, it’s a beautiful bridge between heritage and contemporary culture—proving Mr. Armani’s designs remain eternally relevant.
Barbour x FARM Rio: British Heritage Meets Brazilian Joy
This dynamic duo has reunited for a second collection (following last year’s hit), bringing Barbour’s waxed jackets and countryside classics together with FARM Rio’s vibrant, hand-painted prints and tropical energy. The Spring/Summer 2026 drop includes quilted jackets, showerproof trench coats, floral midi dresses, graphic tees, and accessories—think daisies and cornflowers reimagined in bold, dopamine-boosting motifs.
Available now across the UK, EU, US, and for the first time in Brazil, it celebrates shared values of nature, craftsmanship, and expressive design. Perfect for layering joy into spring outerwear.
(I have already grabbed this!)
Dolce & Gabbana x Ray-Ban: Reimagined Aviators with Italian Flair
Just in time for sunnier days, Dolce & Gabbana has teamed up with Ray-Ban to reinterpret the legendary Aviator silhouette (nearing its 90th anniversary). The collection features fresh takes on the Shooter and Outdoorsman II models, infused with D&G’s bold Italian heritage—think premium details, distinctive frames, and that unmistakable glamorous edge.
Launched mid-April, these sunglasses blend timeless cool with contemporary attitude, making them a must-have accessory for the season.
These collaborations highlight fashion’s love for meaningful crossovers: celebrating anniversaries, preserving legacies, and mixing cultural energies for something fresh and wearable.
Stay tuned for a wedding season trend edition, and of course the Met itself.
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Thanks, Piper! Although I'm kinda surprised you didn't mention Melania in tonight's fashion segment.
Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!
Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the End O' April Edition? Know what comes next? That's right! The First May Edition!
With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?
Why do you people fight me on the fundamentals thing? Are you fundamentals deniers?
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Who's Your Daddy?
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Speaking Of Browning
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Ammo Storage
Well you've bought the ammo, now how do you store it?
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You're Doing It Wrong
Well, probably for many things, but in this specific case - sharpening.
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Our Pal The Starting Motor
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Scooter School!
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Midnight Rider
Too good not to share.
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NoVaMoMe 2026
What - you thought there wasn't going to be a NoVaMoMe in 2026?
Note: One of the great joys of NoVAMoMe season, at least for me, is being able to cut and paste the entire block of text below and haranguing you to attend the event. Are you attending? Are you focusing on the fundamentals of attending?
Alright, guys and gals, the long awaited and highly anticipated details of the 2026 NoVAMoMe are here! That's right, I finally got my act together and updated the information page for 2026, and need to go over a few details. First, the date is June 20th, 2026 from 11am to 3pm. Nextly, my bestest blog buddy bluebell and I have decided 2026 will continue the longstanding tradition of NoVAMoMe simplification, and want to pass along the changes from prior years.
First, no registration and no advance charge for food. If you would like to attend, send an email to WeaselBell Productions, and let us know. You will be directed to a sekrit webpage with all of the details. We do ask once you have decided to attend to let us know so we can coordinate an expected count with venue management. Once there if you are hungry or thirsty simply order from the onsite menu and pay separately. Cash and credit cards accepted. Next, although fun, we have decided to again take a break from the raffles and mug sales this year. Depending on how it goes, that may be something we bring back in future years. While your generosity is always appreciated, with no prize table, please leave donations and contributions at home, but bring your appetite for a great afternoon spent with your imaginary online friends.
Next, a NoVAMoMe PSA from our pal bluebell
Hi folks - just a quick PSA. If you write for info about the MoMe, please give us a few words in the body of the email just so I know you are a Moron and not a spammer (moron). I do receive spam on this email account because it's sitting right here in my nic, so that's why I'm asking. I don't want to give our details to a spammer. Also, remember to check your spam folder if you don't receive a reply email.
Thanks.
bluebell
Seriously, just send an email then go to the website with the password provided. If you forget, a link to the email is on the main page, left sidebar. If you do not sign up, bluebell will be disappointed. Weasel will be disappointed, too, but it's bluebell you need to worry about.
This week our pal Diogenes scores again with this recap of what he's been revisiting lately!
So, I haven't been writing any reviews for a while as I have found myself hanging with some old favorites that I have reviewed previously. I figured no one wanted to reread the same stuff so the typewriter has been silent. But I figured it was time to bring things up to date.
"Well Dio, what have I been sticking with?" you ask. Well, first is the Romeo Y Julieta 1875 Reserve. A classic for me and I tend to refer to it as Old Reliable. Always a good smoke. Balanced and smooth with no surprises. My "Go To" cigar. Then there was the San Cristobal Elegancia. Just a really fine mild cigar with a pleasant aroma from Nicaraguan tobaccos and an easy draw. And finally, there was the Cohiba...the standard by which so many are judged. I don't necessarily go along with all of that, but the Cohoba has never been a disappointment. I have several examples but lately I have enjoyed the Rubicon. It offers a blend of several Dominican, Honduran, and Nicaraguan filler tobaccos that produce a fine taste, easy smoke and pleasant experience. And at about $6-7 it doesn't terrorize the wallet.
But into every nice day, a bit of rain must fall. So it was with a corojo-based cigar sold at the local golf course. Sealed in individual tubes "for freshness" they said, it was a pleasant looking cigar that should never have been taken from the tube. This stick was sold as a Specialty Cigar made exclusively for the golf course so I could not find the source supplier. More the pity as it would have earned them a strongly worded letter! A mild cigar, it was difficult to light, hard to keep lit, and a pain in the ass to relight. A tight draw, and uneven ash contributed to the regret of wasting $8 that would have been better spent on a beer. A shame too as I've had other brands of corojo tobacco and they were fine. But... lesson learned. Never buy a cigar from the Pro shop at the golf course.
Excellent update, Diogenes! Thank you!
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Here are some different online cigar vendors. You will find they not only carry different brands and different lines from those brands, but also varying selections of vitolas (sizes/shapes) of given lines. It's good to have options, especially if you're looking for a specific cigar.
A note about sources. The brick & mortar/online divide exists with cigars, as with guns, and most consumer products, with respect to price. As with guns - since both are "persecuted industries", basically - I make a conscious effort to source at least some of my cigars from my local store(s). It's a small thing, but the brick & mortar segment for both guns and tobacco are precious, and worth supporting where you can. And if you're lucky enough to have a good cigar store/lounge available, they're often a good social event with many dangerous people of the sort who own scary gunz, or read smart military blogs like this one. -rhomboid
Anyone have others to include? Perhaps a small local roller who makes a cigar you like? Send me your recommendation and a link to the site!
Please note the new and improved protonmail account gunthread at protonmail dot com. An informal Gun Thread archive can be found HERE. Future expansion plans are in the works for the site Weasel Gun Thread. If you have a question you would like to ask Gun Thread Staff offline, just send us a note and we'll do our best to answer. If you care to share the story of your favorite firearm, send a picture with your nic and tell us what you sadly lost in the tragic canoe accident. If you would like to remain completely anonymous, just say so. Lurkers are always welcome!
That's it for this week - have you been to the range?
Food Thread: Wash That Knife! Carve That Leg! Peel That Carrot!
—CBD
Ah...lamb! Specifically, a boned-out leg of lamb, which I think is the best way to prepare lamb! Why? because the leg is thick in places, thin in places, has wildly different amounts of fat, and cooks very unevenly. But boning it yields a large piece of meat that can be trimmed to one's own preferences, and then tied up so that it cooks perfectly evenly.
That's why!
Now, a slow-cooking leg of lamb on a rotisserie is going to cook very nicely, no matter if it is bone-in or boneless. This isn't an existential crisis. And besides, I sort of like well-done lamb, especially if it is nice and fatty and the fat has crisped and even charred a little.
But for convenience, the boneless is hard to beat, which is why I am gravitating toward one for a birthday dinner I am hosting in a few weeks. Well, that and a roast chicken on a bed of leeks, carrots, and potatoes, because I think I will have a full table, and the guest list has at least three people who would in another age be considered trenchermen!
And because there isn't enough meat on the menu, I think I will make my cauliflower gratin, but this time with lardons, which is a snooty French word for bacon chunks!
And some green stuff...I guess. For a well-balanced meal.
[...]While clearing the grounds of an upcoming residential development about 20 miles northeast of Zurich, specialists at the Aargau Cantonal Archaeology service found what they believe is a chunk of charred, 2000-year-old Roman bread.
The "alleged pastry" described in an online post from the Aargau Cantonal Department of Education is approximately four inches wide and 1.2 inches thick and likely a type of flatbread. Researchers spotted the burnt morsel in August 2025 while combing through a 43,000-square-foot area near the Roman site of Vindonissa. Known for its strategic position along major river routes, Vindonissa began as an outpost for Roman legion soldiers in what was once the empire's northern frontier.
And why do they "believe" that it is bread? Maybe they were digging in a latrine, and discovered something completely different?
I'm not trying to denigrate archaeology, but in the grand scheme of things, discovering the remains of someone's meal isn't the most exciting thing in the world. People have been eating for a very long time...obviously the remains of those meals carpet every archaeological site.
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Sweetbreads! They are marvelous, and I will brook no argument. Sadly, they are no longer inexpensive! I have noticed over the last several years that even in France they have become a bit of a delicacy, with prices to match, so some of you bastards have discovered how delicious they are, and have driven up the price. Please stop that, and tell all of your friends that sweetbreads cause gout (do they?) and flatulence and will turn your hair green! The Glory of Guts
As steak became more available and prestigious, and eaters have become more removed from, or repulsed by, the reality of food, guts have largely disappeared from cooking. When was the last time you went out and ordered a big calf's liver in vinegar sauce? They, like sweetbreads and tongues, used to be standard fare. Sweetbreads have just barely survived the dulled modern American palate, which has banished guts from its table. One still finds this fine offal on menus in a few fancy places, even in Los Angeles.
I don't know how dulled the modern American palate is, but we have stopped eating things that were common fare just a few generations ago. Whether that is good is a different question, and I'll bet that with the advent of easy transportation and communication, our range of foods has expanded.
In fact, that comment is a throwaway just to sound hip and cool and 0h-so-European, so...
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scampydog's SiL is just showing off with those sourdough crackers! My first thought was that she is a chemist, and that is a benzene ring, but scampydog tells me she is an engineer.
I have a tough enough time getting my sourdough crackers to be the same size, much less cool shapes that absolutely make them taste better!
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Misanthropic Humanitarian thought he would troll me with this recipe, but I will have the last laugh! It doesn't sound awful. Maybe a bit boring, and there are definitely more tasty things to do with carrots than make them into soup. The Comforting Soup My Family Can't Stop Eating
I think this woman's family is a bit retarded in the food arena...there are lots of foods that I would describe as being unable to stop eating, but carrot soup? Really? Maybe nicely marbled NY Strips, grilled rare, or freshly shucked New England Oysters, or even a loaf of freshly-baked bread with great butter.
Her family needs to get out more.
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That looks delicious! From the kitchens of commenter "Rhode Island Red" and the cooking files of commenter "redmindbluestate!" It was no doubt a result of a discussion on these august pages, so really, I will take credit!
Actually, RIRed's lovely wife cooked it, and you will have to guess who took the photo, but clearly, RIRed is an afterthought in his own kitchen.
On a bed of skins-on mashed potato. Red wine for cooking was a hearty Zin.
I guess some people go through that thought process, but I once got myself sick from food poisoning (I know the source; it wasn't a contaminated knife), and I never want to repeat the experience, so why risk it?
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The garlic is busily growing, with pretty impressive green shoots that are pushing a foot tall! I even fertilized them! And if they survive the deer and squirrel apocalypse, and actually grow into something edible, I will be in garlic heaven! In case it doesn't, send all of your excellent home-grown garlic to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.
Rumor has it that the Bourbon Bubble is bursting. I have seen no evidence of decreasing prices, but maybe the bursting started somewhere else! I think the sweet spot is $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle.
The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it!
There is a very interesting but immensely frustrating correlation between the number of flashlights in the house and the probability of a power outage. Obviously the local utility tracks my flashlight purchases, and only turns off the power when the number of functioning lights in the house drops below the number necessary to navigate a several-hours-long blackout.
I am tempted to purchase flashlights by the case, and then simply return them, but I suspect that the surveillance capabilities of PSE&G is more sophisticated than simply counting flashlights in and assuming a failure rate that increases with time.
Do they have a spy in the house? Is it one of the brats? Is that why they come visit? My original assumption was for the free food and drink, but now I might have to reevaluate!
Shipbuilding As A Priority For Our Navy? What A Concept!
—CBD
The recent firing of the Secretary of The Navy was a reasonable action if one assumes that the members of the administration are subordinate to the President and are tasked with implementing his policies. That the former secretary was resistant to some of those policies is ample reason to fire him, and in fact should have been expected.
“He’s a very good man," Trump said Thursday in the Oval Office, referring to Phelan. "I really liked him, but he had some conflict, not necessarily with Pete. He’s a hard charger, and he had some conflicts with some other people, mostly as to building and buying new ships. I’m very aggressive in the new shipbuilding.”
As the saying goes, "Quantity is a quality all its own." And as the Chinese build their navy to compete directly with ours in the Pacific, it is imperative that we accelerate our ship building to more than match theirs.
The issue of course is that ship building in the United States has declined to almost nothing, and the design and procurement process for military vessels has become so unbelievably convoluted and slow, that we essentially have no military shipbuilding. When it takes 10 years to design, approve, and build a new navy vessel like the pathetic Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), it is clear that the system needs revamping, or wholesale destruction and rebuilding from scratch!
Any Navy secretary must understand that and work to change the status quo. Instead, Phelan slow-walked it!
So now we have Hung Cao, whose resume is impressive, and whose dedication to the United States Navy is clear.
Cao said his first and foremost priority is to care for the sailors and Marines of the force.
“We will take care of your needs and make sure you can do the mission,” said Cao, who previously served as an explosive ordnance disposal officer in the Navy and participated in special operations assignments in combat zones.
Cao listed his second priority as shipbuilding.
“We need the platforms we need in order to defend this country,” he said.
President Donald Trump said the previous Navy secretary, John Phelan, was “an excellent guy” but that he had conflicted with other members of the Trump administration on shipbuilding efforts.
Whether Secretary Cao succeeds in revamping a broken system remains to be seen, but his first pronouncements are gratifying, and seem to follow the tone that the Secretary of War is setting for our armed forces.
Is he politically astute? Can he navigate the rats nests in Congress and the Pentagon that are filled with craven opportunists whose every waking hour is consumed by the single-minded goal of personal aggrandizement, or financial gain, or both?
Inquiring minds want to know, but keeping corporatism out of the military seems like a good start!
ANOTHER LEFT WING ASSASSIN ATTEMPTS TO KILL TRUMP If I understand this, the left-wing Democrat assassin attempted to get into the White House Correspondents Association dinner, and was stopped at the magnetometers, which detected his gun. I guess he pulled out the gun and was shot by Secret Service agents. Erika Kirk was present.
Forgotten 70s Mystery Click You made me cry when you said good-bye 70s, not 50s Now that is a motherflipping intro
Podcast: Sefton and CBD wonder about the Chaos that Trump is creating in the minds of the Iranian junta, Virginia redistricting is pure power grab, Ilhan Omar is many things ...and stupid too! Amazon censoring conservative thought again, and the UK...put a fork in it!
The people in charge [Jews, of course -- ace] don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus.
Islam reveres Him as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord, believes He performed miracles, and states that He will return to Earth to defeat the Antichrist. That's why Donald Trump's painting depicting himself as the Son of God offended the president of Iran. It was an attack on his religion as well as Christianity.
Trump's trolling tweet was ill-advised, but Tucker is just lying when he claims the Christianity-hating President of Iran was "offended" by this. He's one step away from announcing his official conversion to Islam. He literally never stops praising Islam. Well, he suddenly became Christian two years ago, there's not much stopping him from converting again.
You can track Tuq'r's official conversion to Islam with this Bingo card.
Podcast: CBD and Sefton talk Orban losing, but is it the end of Hungary? The Irish start a brawl, but is it enough, Pope Leo wades into politics, Trump calls Iran's bluff and blockades Hormuz, Artemis II! Swallwell is scum, and more!
People say that the bearded man in the video of Fartwell molesting a hooker looks like Democrat Arizona Senator Rueben Gallego, said to be Swalwell's "best friend" and known to take vacations with him.
Politico is reporting that multiple people have abruptly resigned from Eric Swalwell's gubernatorial campaign: "Members of senior leadership have departed the campaign, including Courtni Pugh, a strategic adviser who served as Swalwell's top liaison to organized labor groups."
So the campaign is collapsing due to the truth of the sexual harassment allegations.
That hissing sound you hear is the air going out of the Swalwell campaign. UPDATE: No it wasn't, it was just Swalwell one-cheek-sneaking out a fart on camera
Eric Swalwell more like Eric Farewell amirite
thanks to weft-cut loop.
This is the dumbest AI bullslop I've seen in a while: the CIA can use "quantum magnetometry" to track an individual man's heartbeat from twelve miles away I wouldn't click on it, it's not interesting, it's just stupid clickslop. I just want to share my annoyance with you.
Classic Rock Mystery Click This is super-obscure and I only barely remember it. Given that, I'll give you the hint that it's by the Red Rocker. And I guess you think you've got it made
Oh, but then, you never were afraid
Of anything that you've left behind
Oh, but it's alright with me now
'Cause I'll get back up somehow
And with a little luck, yes, I'm bound to win Now twenty people will tell me it's not obscure, it was huge in their hometown and played at their prom. That's how it usually goes. When I linked Donnie Iris's "Love is Like a Rock," everyone said they knew that one and that his other song (which I didn't know at all) Ah Leah! was huge in their area.
